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A. D. ROOD.

TYPE. v No. 408,195. Patented July 30, .1889.

1722372 2 07", JZWMSJZ 200% UNTTED I STATES PATENT OFFIC AMOS D. ROOD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO NETTA G. ROOD AND THOMAS B. BRYAN, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 408,195, dated July 30, 1889.

Application filed February 19, 1889. Serial No. 300,482- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AMOS D. ROOD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois,

have invented a new and useful Improve ment in Type, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to type for printing characters through the medium of ink,wh ether used in a printing-press, a type-writing machine,a handstamp, or otherwise. The various type-impressions made with ink are liable to be more or less fugitive, are frequently indistinct, and are susceptible of etfacement, wholly or in part, and even of a1 teration; and my object is to overcome these defects by imparting to the impression a quality of especial permanency.

To this end my invention consists in proyiding the salient portion of the type with puncturing-points, sufficiently close together to produce by perforations in the material printed upon an outline of the character imprinted by means of the ink that is to say,

2 5 my invention consists in a type for transferring to the material printed upon a twofold reproductionof the character upon the type, the one by means of ink, as usual, and the other by means of perforations, so that each 0 reproduction serves to confirm the other, and at the same time exceptional permanency is secured, since the perforated outline is incapable of effacement or alteration without readily-apparent injury to the material.

3 5 In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan view of a type provided with my improvement; Fig. 2, a sectional view of the same, taken on the line 2 2 of Fig.1; and Figs. 3 and-4, similar sectional views show 0 ing modifications in the matter of the location of thepuncturing-points.

A is a type, comprising the usual body I, with the character .9 in relief upon its end. At intervals upon the end of the type puncturing-points p are formed, which may either be centrally located upon the face of the character, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, or upon or along one or both margins of the face, as indicated in Figs. 3 and 4t.

My invention is not to be confounded with the ordinary puncturing hand-stamps, nor with the perforating-type which have the outline of the character or figure to be transferred formed upon them by puncturingpoints alone, and designed and adapted to be used for stenciling purposes only, whether used in conjunction with a hand-stamp, a type-Writing machine, or any other agent. My invention adds to the ordinary printed I character the features of a punctured outline 6c of the same character.

\Vhile my improved type is intended especially for use in connection with type-writing machines and hand-stamps, it will readily be seen that its application may be extended to 6 5 nearly every form of printing and engraving. For example, in the printing of negotiable notes and bonds absolute security against alteration would be obtained by the applica tion of my invention. My use of the word type, therefore, is not to be understood in its restricted sense, since the term is employed generically, to comprehend the various agents from which an ink-transfer is produced.

IVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A type provided with puncturing-points extending beyond the face of its character and producing, when the type is used for printing, an outline of the character by perforations in addition to the ink-impression thereof, substantially as described.

AMOS D. R001).

In presence of M. J. Bownns, J. \V. DYEENEOETH. 

